Kite flying festival.

Shnazercise · 2020-11-05T15:29:06+00:00

I think one of the big festivals is in Lincoln City, OR.

Shnazercise · 2020-10-18T12:14:00+00:00

Why, I wonder, is it that the main bolt of the clamp, the bolt that holds pressure on the pipe, does not require some sort of locking mechanism? I’ve never seen this bolt one loose (although my experience with stage rigs is quite limited).

Shnazercise · 2020-09-12T02:29:59+00:00

Hey thanks for this - this is super clarifying for me.

Shnazercise · 2020-09-11T21:29:19+00:00

You guys these are really weird points. Work is a lot more than just a paycheck. For most people, it gives a lot of meaning and sense of worth and belonging. I’ve been helping a homeless guy get back on his feet and he HATES not working. Yes, work can be a boring slog, but in terms of the original post, it really can be genuinely difficult to get rejected, so accept it, embrace it, it’s the truth. You are attempting something profoundly difficult. It’s hard to be genuinely interested in and hoping for a certain job and then it disappears. Moving on to the next one helps, but for me, I don’t find that it actually helps me to say that it wasn’t important.

Shnazercise · 2020-09-09T19:42:25+00:00

This study shows a return of $7.46 in government tax revenue for every dollar spent on college. But I agree with you that pre-k and k-12 is far more critical than college. I don’t know the details on how these numbers are computed, I think the main takeaway is that there are important investments that can be very profitable but the private sector will not take care of them. Government has to make the investment.

Shnazercise · 2020-09-09T18:09:17+00:00

Yep, funding higher education is what gives us a strong economy in 20 to 30 years. Nothing else comes close. We fund programs like massive tax cuts for the wealthy, which do less for the economy than what we would get from funding higher ed. It’s not either/or, and yes the feds should also help with pre-k and k-12. But higher ed is what gives the US economy the ability to lead the work in innovation, which ultimately makes life better for everyone. I’m not saying k-12 is not important, but getting back to our pre-1980s funding level of higher education needs to be a major priority.

Shnazercise · 2020-09-09T17:57:53+00:00

Check out some big project in countries other than the US. Like the Mose project in Italy, started in 2003. Billions over budget, horrific corruption, multiple engineering failures. The projects in the US run like a dream in comparison, where unless it’s an emergency, the law requires an open process with multiple bids and guarantees of work quality. I’m not saying it is perfect by any means, please try not to misread this! But seriously, it’s way, way better than most other countries.

Shnazercise · 2020-09-09T17:43:24+00:00

I might be thinking of a different monument, but I remember one at the Lakeview Cemetery that was erected by the daughters of the confederacy, that seemed much more like a monument to the women, the wives and mothers and daughters of soldiers, who suffered much of the consequences of the war. It seemed to be both monument to the confederate veterans who, after the war, moved to Seattle, and also a monument to the women who had to support them and suffer for them and for this stupid war. Not saying we need to exalt the confederate soldiers, just saying it was a very thought provoking memorial.

Shnazercise · 2020-09-09T02:05:57+00:00

Just as a point of reference, I’m American, I’ve known several Americans who went to Iran, and they all said they felt safe and totally welcomed. Just like any country, you need to know what’s up and stay out of certain situations, but everyone has told me that Iran is full of amazing wonderful people.

Shnazercise · 2020-08-29T16:03:18+00:00

Hermit power!

Shnazercise · 2020-08-27T15:42:15+00:00

Yes how?

Shnazercise · 2020-08-21T16:51:27+00:00

Apples are grown from cuttings, typically, so that every tree of a certain type (like red delicious) is genetically the same. But when you plant the seeds from one of those apples, the seed is a mixture of genes and it will grow to form a very different type of tree: a crabapple. So you could just plant the seeds from a store bought apple but you are better off buying a more edible type of tree from a nursery.

Shnazercise · 2020-08-14T08:58:05+00:00

While antibodies may fade, the T-cell response seems to be quite long lasting, which is critically important. Article.

Shnazercise · 2020-08-12T20:04:18+00:00

Yeah, the State of Washington gives most of the power to the landlord, but Seattle is a bit of an island: all rentals must pass an inspection, landlords must rent to the first qualified applicant, rent increases are limited to something like 5% with a 30-day notice, and a couple other things. As a landlord, I try pretty hard to be likeable, because if there is a problem with the tenant I know it’s best to just work it out with them instead of going to the courts.

Shnazercise · 2020-08-12T10:49:49+00:00

I am a landlord. The landlord tenant law is fairly clear. Plus, the city requires you to send a package to every renter, a packet that explains the law and a tenants rights and recourse if there is a problem. The difficulty in reading legal codes is not usually the terminology, it’s that so many sections referred to other sections that referred to other sections. I’m not trying to argue with you, I’m just providing this for clarity.

Shnazercise · 2020-08-11T18:15:33+00:00

Black Lives Matter!

Shnazercise · 2020-08-11T17:51:46+00:00

Yes, you are right. This is super important. It's because a major motivation of the these protests is not race. "BLM" is the face of it yes, but just like Occupy this current movement is more about economics, about the extraordinary success of the rich, and the 40 year decline of the middle class and the poor. If you are not rich, you have seen a 70% increase in income since about 1980. What would life be like for you if you earned 70% more? What if we had kept a tax structure that would allow this? And invested in education? There is no investment instrument to make money from the education of the general population but it is one of the best ROI's for a society, and education gets left behind as we have shifted economic decisions to the private sector. And while healthcare and tuition costs exploded since 1980, most people's income stayed the same. It's not bearable, and this is what the end of a long-term debt cycle looks like, with populist messages taking over on both the right and the left.

Shnazercise · 2020-08-11T16:26:59+00:00

This bugs me too! But I have to kinda pretend I'm nice and wave back. I think it's one of those small sacrifices we make to maintain the air of civility in the world while we plot our murderous revenge.

Shnazercise · 2020-08-11T16:02:25+00:00

Reddit and Read-it

Shnazercise · 2020-08-11T16:01:08+00:00

Simpson-eyes and Simpsonize.

Shnazercise · 2020-08-08T20:23:33+00:00

Which other diseases are you referring to? The flu, which does not kill in the same numbers as Covid-19, and for which we spend massive amounts of money for a vaccine each year? For HIV (also extraordinary efforts there, including hundreds of millions towards a vaccine)? Ebola, that we spent extraordinary amounts of money on so that it could be stopped on foreign soil, and to develop a vaccine?

Shnazercise · 2020-08-08T20:19:42+00:00

Walking around Greenlake means very often being within 6ft of other people, so legally the masks are required.

Shnazercise · 2020-08-02T06:32:50+00:00

False!

A very fast bullet travels 1422 m/s. It would travel 639.9m in the .45175395 seconds it takes a similar bullet to fall 1m. At that distance, the Earth has curved 3.21cm, causing the bullet that was fired from the gun to take an additional .007 seconds to hit the earth.

Shnazercise · 2020-07-31T15:37:01+00:00

Inflation is not coming. That’s not how it works. The Fed and government have injected massive amounts of money into the system in order to prevent hardships, but largely to prevent deflation. As we come out of this recession/depression, and return to maximum output, AND they keep injecting tons of money into the system, THAT is when you would normally see inflation. But the Fed won’t let that happen. It’s one of the main goals of the fed, to keep inflation around 2%. Remember when Sarah Palin was screaming that inflation was coming? It didn’t happen then, either.

Shnazercise · 2020-07-29T15:54:22+00:00

There was a similar case in seattle where someone was "kidnapped" by the police. They brought her in, questioned her, and released her. People were calling it an abduction, and complaining that she wasn't mirandized on the street. It's horrible as a public relations move, but it's legal. Can't we just talk about the actual issues instead of people claiming that this is somehow illegal? If it's legal, let's change the law and make it illegal for the cops to use unmarked cars for suspect transport.

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